From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OQiKN-0000Qo-Sa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC837E09C6; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558E4E09BF for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35C61B40CC for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.53 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.53 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.069, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QCqEDbeu+ICv for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9121B4107 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQiJx-0000T6-9S for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:49:57 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:49:57 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:49:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201006210913.29074.aballier@gentoo.org> <4C1F0EE3.5010208@gentoo.org> <1277128018.7004.6.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies; GIT a971f44 branch-testing) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6715c397-1888-4a5e-bcb5-94a1213ed5f1 X-Archives-Hash: 49011faac38b56f0fa0904a6df0caac5 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte posted on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:46:58 -0400 as excerpted= : > It's not the bindings... It's introspection data that describes the API= . Well, the bindings themselves are dynamic, but this is what enables them,= =20 according to the description. Only explaining all that is a bit long to=20 stick in the flag itself, so leave it in the description. Which, assumin= g=20 it's correct, would make the name accurate as well, as bindings are what=20 the flag is /for/, even if bindings are not actually what's /directly/=20 controlled by it. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman